DIEZ

In the reading, "She Must Be From Another Country," I think the poet was using the phrase as a metaphor.  A metaphor for being different.  She uses the phrase at the end of each stanza to wrap up her idea of how she is different.  I think it shows a strong message that people need to be more accepting of people who don't think the same way as the "country" or the "whole."  In the second to last stanza, she talks about how people get the right to pass judgement so quickly and decide the rules.  This leads me to believe that she is living freely and unique in her own eyes, but being judged by people around her and this is the point of the poem, that she wants to live in a place where there are no "requirements" and people are able to live how they want.

Last Sunday, my group edited for 6 hours.  We got really far and after a lot of time found stuff that we could use from our main interview.  He said a lot of stuff so it was hard to go through it and choose the most important things to use.  He also had a really bad stutter, so it was hard finding pieces that we were even able to cut and use.  We put everything in order and chose our b-roll, transitions, adjusted all the audio, and added music.  We were saving throughout the whole day but at the end of the day at our final save at 6, which was all the final touches the computer froze and we lost all of the good stuff (usable interviews, transitions, adjusted audio levels, and the music.) So we went back on Monday and re-edited it all and found even more interviews that we could use.  We realize now that we need one final interview to tie it all together and we have a few people lined up to do it it just depends on their availability.  Once we get the last interview we just have to cut it and insert it and we are done since everything else is all lined up and ready to go!

Nueve!

We have been editing all week during VOICES, we have some ideas of which interviews we want to use and we have sorted everything out in terms of what their subject is.  I think that once we're done organizing everything deciding what to use will go a lot smoother because we got a lot of b-roll. Even if we didn't get enough b-roll...we have a lot of pictures off of flickr from the event.  I think that if we keep editing everyday our draft should be done by Monday.

The reading was interesting.  Freedom of speech is an important amendment, and something that I think everyone should honor.  I didn't know that in Cuba there was an issue battling freedom of speech.  I like in powerful readings like this when the author questions society and the beliefs we have, "or is it that in order to save our national liberty we must begin by suffocating civil liberties."  I thought that was a really powerful message because it's true! I feel like in order to accomplish a bigger goal we usually ignore smaller goals that fit into the bigger picture.  I liked the article because its aim was to send a positive message.